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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 11h

An honest, insightful analyst would have addressed the issue differently. First and foremost the narrative framing of a ‘war’ would have been replaced by the reality: ‘genocide’. In fact, nowhere in his 1800-word article does Bowen even mention the word. The omission is both glaring and shameful
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 11h

On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Israel and Hamas seize the chance to end the war?’
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Blinkered Bowen

The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 13h

The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance
Not only in Britain Governments have taken mass public disgust at Israel's actions as an excuse to introduce measures to otlaw dissent that they have long wanted to impose
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance

Across the west, solidarity marches are testing governments’ tolerance for dissent. From arrests to bans, free-speech boundaries are shifting

www.theguardian.com

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 1d

Please sign/share
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dual citizen IDF soldiers need to face the UK justice. if you agree, please sign this petition and forward to your contacts.

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Prosecute British IDF soldiers for Human Rights violations

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 1d

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’
After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics #bds
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 2d

“It’s a task for a whole generation”: how the Hind Rajab Foundation pursues Israeli war criminals around the world

A conversation with HRF chairman Dyab Abou Jahjah

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“It’s a task for a whole generation”: how the Hind Rajab Foundation pursues Israeli war criminals around the world

A conversation with HRF chairman Dyab Abou Jahjah

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 2d

Gee said he did "nothing more than exercise his fundamental rights as a professional and as a person," because "serious concerns related to racing for the team, both from a safety and personal belief standpoint, weighed heavily on my conscience".
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 2d

Canada's Derek Gee left the team days before he was due to compete in September's Vuelta a Espana - the three-week Grand Tour which was subject to several pro-Palestinian protests
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 2d

Israel will be vindictive if you have a conscience
A former Israel-Premier Tech rider says he is facing a damages claim for €30m after terminating his contract with the team over "personal beliefs"
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cyclin...
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Israel-Premier Tech: Canadian rider facing £26m damages after terminating contract

A former Israel-Premier Tech rider is facing a 30m Euro damages claim after terminating his contract with team over

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 3d

The surging censorship in a country that pretends it values free speech is frightening
‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine
Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’
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‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

www.theguardian.com

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 3d

Trump’s war on the left: Inside the plan to investigate liberal groups -

The best way to combat antisemitism is of course to attack Jewish groups
Obvious really
@jvplive
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 3d

Given that they don’t want to compromise on anything, they want to ensure that the other side is represented by the same mentality
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 3d

Keeping him caged is a way of keeping the idea of Palestinian sovereignty caged with him.

Keeping Barghouti in prison is part and parcel of the same stupid policy that Israel utilized to empower and fund Hamas.
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 3d

He represents the possibility of a legitimate, democratically chosen Palestinian leadership — precisely what Israel cannot afford. He would force the conversation back to politics, not terror, and that would expose how barren Israel’s own strategy has become.
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 3d

Polls have long shown he [Marwan Barghouti] would likely win any Palestinian election. AP News reported that Israel’s government explicitly ruled him out of any current release, calling him too dangerous. In truth, that refusal is not about danger; it’s about control.
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The Artifice of the Deal

Two gangsters have a plan

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 3d

Sovereignty in All but Name: Israel’s Quickening Annexation of the West Bank
The settler movement is steering the Israeli state toward establishing formal permanent control of the occupied West Bank. Outside powers should put muscle behind pushing Israel to change course
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Sovereignty in All but Name: Israel’s Quickening Annexation of the West Bank | International Crisis Group

With prominent members serving in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the settler movement is steering the Israeli state toward establishing formal permanent control of the occupied West B...

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 3d

We would like to draw our followers' attention to this compilation of reports by @franceskalbs.bsky.social , UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
free ebook download from @plutopress.bsky.social
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A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press

A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 4d

These Horrific Numbers Show the Scale of Israel's Genocide in Gaza Two Years On
The figures speak for themselves.
Read them all
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These Horrific Numbers Show the Scale of Israel's Genocide in Gaza Two Years On

The figures speak for themselves.

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 4d

away from Gaza, with at least eight of its boats already invaded and crews kidnapped. The Conscience, one of the few powered boats in the flotilla, kept sailing longest despite being under attack by an Israeli military helicopter, but has now also been seized and its crew abducted
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 4d

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition of humanitarian, volunteer-crewed boats, which set sail for Gaza in the wake of Israel’s criminal attack on and seizure of the larger Global Sumud Flotilla, has already been attacked in international waters. The flotilla was some 150 nautical miles
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Breaking video: new flotilla already under severe Israeli attack, crews kidnapped

Israel detains activists and confiscates aid carried on the Freedom Flotilla as legal group warns of further action

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 4d

to a Ben Shapiro podcast, in which he declares that the war must go on, while as usual, trying to give Hamas an excuse to torpedo the deal, rather than allowing negotiations over the hostages' release to proceed in a practical way.
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 4d

in the name of "combating antisemitism." This government's conduct constitutes a concrete danger to Israelis and Jews worldwide. Israel is hallucinating that it's protecting the West, while digging in on the wrong side of history.
Amid all this insanity, Netanyahu chooses to give an interview
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 4d

[email protected] editorial
He [Amichai Chikli] proved that the threshold qualification for membership in Netanyahu's government is a lack of judiciousness. One could not imagine how low we have sunk: Israel's government is embracing extremist racists
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 5d

Join the Jewish Bloc on Saturday

Assemble Henry Bartle Frere Statue, Whitehall Gardens SW1A 2ET

From 11.45

#StopArmingIsrael
#EndTheGenocide

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 5d

JVL is proud to be a member of Global Jews for Palestine and to share this message of how we should all recognise the Zionist sins against Palestinians at the start of the third year of genocide in Gaza youtu.be/4_L9T5Hw0Hg?...

Global Jews for Palestine | Reflections on a genocide

YouTube video by Jewish Voice for Labour

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